State motorsports ice races held in U.P.

The American Motorcyclist Association’s state championship in ice racing is being held at the U.P. State Fairgrounds in Escanaba this week, a new event for the area.

Excerpt: A native son has made quite a name for himself by bringing a brand of sport that’s right at home in the Upper Peninsula to lower Michigan.

Jeremiah Sherman, a 1997 Mid Peninsula graduate, soldier in the U.S. Army and Perkins native, has turned a hobby into a career and now plays both sides of the mirror.

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Source: Escanaba Daily Press